WELCOME TO MY POTTING SHED

You can't beat a dollop of mud a day to keep the Doctor at bay.

Why not follow me about as I garden for money and just for fun in beautiful Nailsworth and its' environs.

What's it all about?

My gardens, that's all and any gardening related stuff I guess you might be interested in.

Where do I garden?

My house is in the centre of Nailsworth. With the wind in the right direction, we get a strong whiff of curry as it floats out of the Passage to India and into our front garden. We never get this smell anywhere else on our premises, which is either a good thing, or a bad one, depending on your point of view. As you now know we have a garden, a small rectangle, at the front of the house, and a triangular courtyard garden at the back. Then there's the Garden Plot, right down in the heart of Nailsworth, which I rent from a local business. This is new as from Autumn 2009 and will take a lot of work to help it become productive. I try to garden for veges at my friend Debbis house and for fun with my next door neighbour.

It adds up to a lot of work. For a relaxing hobby, it's proving stressful at times, but, mostly it's heaven.

There are customers who like me to work for them right through the year, and others who I see during the summer months. This working more days a week in the summer than in the winter, of course. The way to keep the finances stable for me has been to teach on the days I don't garden. Works really well for me. The bills get paid, we haven't starved to death yet and we get to have fun ... sometimes!
Showing posts with label Spuds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spuds. Show all posts

Monday, 27 September 2010

Pears'n'Spuds Monday 20.9.10



It's a bit of a rarity at the moment, having the time to get up to the plot to do work. Today was the day : )


I only dug one row


and had plenty of spuds with each forkful.


I got all these spuds from the row.


Having stooped for an hour or so, I decided to stretch up, BIG STYLE, and harvest some more PEARS.

The spuds are all for us, the Pears are for the Market with the surplus for Mikes shop.



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Monday, 17 May 2010

Better Late Than Never - Putting In The Spuds


Well what a great way to spend the day: 
putting in spuds.


They're going to be dropped into the green area next to my broad beans. Look how sunny it was today.



The bed will be a rectangle, which meant lifting some of the plastic sheeting to give me a top corner.  It's done a great job at keeping weeds down and weakening the big stuff. 


Found 3 amazing creatures inside 10 minutes. 

This big toad was under the soil, I flipped it out of the ground. I thought I had speared it on the prongs of the fork. It's OK, it didn't have a mark on it.

Then I almost stepped backwards onto this......



It's a Slow Worm, small, but perfectly formed.


As if to keep me on my toes, this little critter was leaping about all over the place. I scooped it up, took it's mug shot and released it. How perfect it was.
A Frog

Sill, I got on with my digging  and finally managed to get 4 rows in, out of 10. looking good.



I can taste them now, yummy!!



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